Dennis Lehane grew up in the Dorchester section of Boston and currently splits his time between Los Angeles and Boston. He’s published ten novels, three of which (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, and Shutter Island) have been made into award-winning films. Dennis will be signing and discussing his latest title that continues the historical saga that started with The Given Day followed by Live By Night. In his latest, World Gone By, it’s been ten years since former crime boss Joe Coughlin’s wife was killed and his empire destroyed. Now he travels between Florida and Cuba as consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, moving effortlessly between Tampa’s elite, the mob, and the Cuban underworld. It’s only a matter of time before the sins of his past catch up to him. Please note that this is a numbered event. Numbers for the signing line are free with the purchase of World Gone By from Mysterious Galaxy, which will be available March 10.

This is a numbered event – numbers for the signing line are free with the purchase of World Gone By from Mysterious Galaxy, available March 10th, starting at 10 AM!

If you are planning to attend the event, please do not place your order through the web site as all such orders are processed after the event. Instead, please come by or call the store and purchase the book on or after the on-sale date.

Join Dennis Lehane, Nancy Pearl, and 30 Northwest authors for an evening of books, conversation, food, and wine on Saturday, March 23, at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue. Benefit book sale, author signings, sit-down dinner, and remarks by by Dennis Lehane. Tickets are $200, a portion of which is tax-deductible, and proceeds benefit the King County Library System Foundation.

Live by Night begins in 1926, a time when the black market’s maze of underground distilleries and speakeasies is home to gangsters and corrupt cops. A tale of swindling and strong-arming in Boston, Florida, and Cuba that pits one gangster against another in a fight for respect, superiority, and firm control of the Atlantic Coast’s rum business. Live by Night gives readers the page-turning opportunity to experience Dennis Lehane’s masterful suspense and his new historical landscape. (Sydney2462)… (more)

** This is a rescheduled event: Due to dangerous conditions wrought by Hurricane Sandy, we were forced to postpone this event. Ticketholders for the (postponed) October 27th event will be honored for the new date. Thank you. ** Writers in the Spotlight Series. Dennis Lehane's novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Given Day; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and Prayers for Rain. Combining edgy suspense and the vivid period detail that made The Given Day a smashing success, award-winning, bestselling author Dennis Lehane delivers a masterful epic of Prohibition-era America told through the story of a charismatic young gangster on his rise through the glitz and the violence of the Roaring 20s in his latest work, Live by Night. This is a ticketed event (tickets go on sale on Monday, June 25th, at 11 a.m.). Tickets may be purchased through the Capitol Center for the Arts. Tickets will be $28.50, which includes a copy of Live by Night (available for pick up at Gibson's Bookstore beginning on October 2) Each ticket buyer may also purchase, in addition to but not in place of their $28.50 ticket, up to six tickets at $6 each (which do not come with books) for their family or group members. (GibsonsB)… (more)

Event location: Capitol Center for the Arts (44 South Main St., Concord, NH, 03301, United States)

Dennis Lehane is the author of nine novels—including the New York Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day—as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie, divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. His one regret is that no one ever gave him a chance to tend bar.

Location: Street: Downtown United Presbyterian Church Additional: 121 N. Fitzhugh St City: Rochester, Province: New York Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Writers in the Spotlight Series. Dennis Lehane's novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Given Day; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and Prayers for Rain. Combining edgy suspense and the vivid period detail that made The Given Day a smashing success, award-winning, bestselling author Dennis Lehane delivers a masterful epic of Prohibition-era America told through the story of a charismatic young gangster on his rise through the glitz and the violence of the Roaring 20s in his latest work, Live by Night. This is a ticketed event (tickets go on sale on Monday, June 25th, at 11 a.m.). Tickets may be purchased through the Capitol Center for the Arts. Tickets will be $28.50, which includes a copy of Live by Night (available for pick up at Gibson's Bookstore beginning on October 2) Each ticket buyer may also purchase, in addition to but not in place of their $28.50 ticket, up to six tickets at $6 each (which do not come with books) for their family or group members. (GibsonsB)… (more)

We are proud to join with the St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading to present award winning bestselling authors Dennis Lehane and Michael Koryta together at Four Green Fields Irish Pub. Both authors will share stories in conversation with St. Petersburg Times book editor COLETTE BANCROFT, followed by booksigning.

Tickets are free with purchase of a copy of either Lehane’s newest novel, Live by Night (on sale October 2 - reserve your copies any time) or Koryta’s The Prophet from Inkwood. Reserving books and tickets ahead of time is strongly recommended (813-253-2638 or inkwoodbooks@gmail.com) as space is limited. Please note that while tickets guarantee your chance to meet the authors and have your books personally autographed, tickets do not guarantee seats. Dennis Lehane's ninth novel, Live by Night, is the compelling tale of Joe Coughlin, youngest son of a prominent police captain, on his dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime, from petty thief in Jazz Age Boston to wildly successful rumrunner in Ybor City, with a fancy Hyde Park home. The riveting epic has a rich cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough guys and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. The spoils, thrills, and notoriety are tempered by the dark side of living by night, in this tour de force that once again proves Lehane is, as Bancroft says,“one of the big dogs of contemporary crime fiction”. “Lehane…has done his homework on local history. He evokes Ybor City's multicultural, ardently political past as well as its criminal legends, like those tunnels under the streets that bootleggers and drug dealers used… Lehane is a past master of suspense and action, and his turn here from characters who solve crimes to those who commit them offers him rich territory…Live by Night takes on big subjects - race, class, money, religion, friendship, family, violence - by embedding them in irresistible storytelling about a compelling, conflicted and mordantly funny man.” Tampa Bay Times “This is an utterly magnetic novel on every level…set against an exquisitely rendered historical backdrop.” Booklist (starred review) “Masterful. . . . Lehane has created a mature, quintessentially American story that will appeal to readers of literary and crime fiction alike.” Publishers Weekly (starred review) “...the novel builds to a powerful series of climaxes, following betrayal upon betrayal, which will satisfy Lehane’s fans and deserves to extend his readership as well. Power, lust and moral ambiguity combine for an all-American explosion of fictional fireworks.” Kirkus Reviews Dennis Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, but now makes his home in St. Petersburg most of the year. He has written eight other novels, A Drink Before the War; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island;and The Given Day. Michael Koryta’s latest novel, The Prophet, is a gripping story of the lingering effects of survivors of victims of violent crime, with destinies altered by guilt and blame. Though they haven’t spoken in years, brothers Adam and Kent Austin still live in the small town where their younger sister was abducted and murdered when they were teens. Guilt-ridden Adam is a bail bondsman working too close to the criminal fringes, while religiously rehabilitated Kent is the beloved high school football coach. When another teen girl is found murdered with circumstances eerily connecting the crime to the Austin brothers, they’re forced to confront their buried rage and grief as they unite to stop a killer. Hailed as one of the best young suspense writers at work today, Koryta has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him "one of the best of the best." “Friday Night Lights meets In Cold Bloodin this powerful tale…It's a brilliantly paced thriller that keeps its villains at a tantalizing distance, a compelling family portrait, a study in morality that goes beyond the usual black-and-white judgments, and an entertaining spin on classic football fiction. A flawless performance.” Kirkus Reviews Michael Koryta has won several prestigious awards and nominations for the Edgar, Quill, Shamus and Barry awards, and his work has been translated into nearly 20 languages. A former PI and newspaper reporter, Koryta graduated from Indiana University with a degree in criminal justice, and currently lives in St. Petersburg, and Bloomington, Indiana.

From Gone, Baby, Gone to Mystic River to Shutter Island to The Given Day, the phenomenal Dennis Lehane has proven himself to be one of the most versatile and exciting novelists working in America today. Live by Night is the unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties, chronicling one man's rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast's most successful rum runner.